Table of Contents

Volume I: History of Agriculture and Food * Part I: Before Agriculture * Part II: Early Agriculture * Part III: Agricultural Revolutions and Change * Part IV: Modern Agricultural Reforms * Index * Volume II: Agriculture and the Environment * Part I: Agricultural Harm to the Environment * Part II: Agroecology and Sustainability * Part III: Communities and Social Capital * Part IV: Ecological Restoration and Design * Index * Volume III: Agriculture and Food Systems * Part I: The Global Food System * Part II: Poverty and Hunger * Part III: Diet and Health * Part IV: Localized Food Systems * Index * Volume IV: Policies, Processes and Institutions * Part I: Ethics and Systems Thinking * Part II: Participatory Processes * Part III: Governance and Education * Part IV: Enabling Policies and Institutions for Sustainable Agricultural and Food Systems * Index

About the Author

Jules Pretty OBE is Professor of Environment and Society and Head of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Essex, UK, and Chief Editor of the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability. His works include The Earth Only Endures (2007), The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Agriculture (2005), The Pesticide Detox (2005), Agri-Culture (2002), The Living Land (1998), Regenerating Agriculture (1995), The Hidden Harvest (1992) and Unwelcome Harvest (1991).